Monday, April 15, 2013

On wilting…

I’ve missed y’all!

And I’m sorry that I haven’t been posting.

As I explained in a post months ago (wince), my brother went
through a patch of misery that I can’t go into any detail about. Suffice it to say that his misery was
my misery…and when he emerged from it, I then found myself dealing with my own
patch of post-misery misery.

Blink.

Add to that an extended stretch of work-based overwhelmification, and…well, lets
just say that this bitch’s Afro was wilting.

Shit, my Afro is still wilting!

Sigh.

Many of you know that I’m co-guardian of my older autistic
brother. I’ve written about the
challenges of guardianship and how taxing they can be…they are often as taxing
as being a sibling is empowering…and for the last several months, trying to balance the
two was all I could do.

But of course that’s not all I had to do…cause life doesn’t
pause when a body is going through a ton of emotionally challenging shit.

Anyhoo, I thank y'all for your encouragement and support.

Trust that a bitch hasn’t retired or fallen off a cliff…or
been in jail (thanks to a certain Trinity from Nashville for offering bail
money if that was the case!)

I'm sorry Bill has had some rough times. And I'm sorry you are having them too! I'm so GLAD you're back!! Massive squeeze hugs of LOVE to you! I missed you so much, what was I gonna do without my dose of Shark-Fu to get me through the day? YAY.

I've been going through some tough times too. But it's nothing new really- unemployment, religious confusion, involuntary celibacy, intra-personal friction... yep, nothing new in my life. Oh and I got a painful tetanus shot today. Still living at home with the parents.

But on the upside, I finally got my own garage-door-opener today, so I can come and go as I please from the home-place without being beholden to folks. I'll be working soon at a library in a zoo! My dream job! And my ex and I talked for two hours, basically decided to be best friends, and made up from our old quarrels. Shit, I thought the dude was poisonous but he is as sweet as banana pudding and has genuinely apologized for his previous displays of assholery.

So it's a balanced picture on my end.. I wish I had been able to e-mail you or been more adept with this site. I am praising the Lord to be home again in a place with decent soul-food restaurants. Now that I've got the money, the time and the transit I think I need a serious infusion of something smothered and covered and fried! If the gods are kind, perhaps buttermilk pie!

I was worried you'd given up on the fine art of bitchitude. The love you have for your brother is solid as a rock and amazing, keep on keeping on! Your fans in West Michigan await your fluff of the Afro.